The Sun. — London, England, 1810-09-28 00:00:00

a.:*empt to preserve, by some negotiation, the in -t grity of Spain. which was of great, advantage to her. Unfortunately had, in the mean line, been cAled . to the Ministry. This man, ignorait of the affairs of Europe, otoy judging of • them by the print.iples or policy which he had put in prakcAce in India, arfd towards 'Nabobs., 'induced the King of Etiglatiti.to.e.ogage to-acknowledge a_nd support the iirsift,genrs.; to do , th4t whtek(ieneral, Moore . had ttotheen able to do iv the periibd of the strengilt-alid itorte of - the insurreolon, and that • which Lard Neliington had.-not been.able coruplish at the titoe when the French armies were in Vierirra....and Hu g ry. 2lt . was believed at least • tOt Englandwould make great'effot ts ; and that; • supported by the ,fortresses of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida, she .witted . profit 'by ti,e embarrassment which.these tWo sieges 'gave the' French,. to them battle turned on _otherwise. The EuE,lish army only weakly reciih reed ; and, 'instead of ~deeds- , ,,..they,rested. s alisfid with boaOng'.;_hd bra vado. .Ciudad . Rodrtg, invested ; Romano, and the SRtini-b . CtilOneis; flew 'font the centre of Estrstan t ,r : l,.Zcitli'teats,in their eyes, threw them: se,‘ feet, and _con / jut:A him to relieve the. brave ,rrison,ot Ciudad, where 800b . cliosen troOps. . were stint. op, ••• 'Lord Wellington, who had promised every thing', when tin:se troops were placed in fhe'fOrtress, re-. tradied when it was necessary to coo e to deeds.;: and, when pressed, he- produced - in full Co,.,twil a! letterfrom.the King e,f - 1 1 .,nglaud, which forbad him, lisza-ding unF, thing.. ‘ Ciudad Rodrigo was taken i 8000 .c i nusen troops .were made, .pristters. Upon this new-, the English gave.as ,, urances.that it should not be the same with Alnieida, and 'persuaded the Portuguese to. shut themselves ..up in, the place,— " But of, what. use will it be,", said the'yortuguese, " to, shut ourselves .up in_ Almeida ? If you will not give' battle, blow up the fortress. It you mean to relieve it, why did you :not : give us .the sxiample a) Ciudad 1" ." Tie . cases are different," replied Lord Wellington.: I had orders to the contrary for Spain.; I have _them not for. Portugal. Besides, I could tot engage , in the plains of Ciudad Rodrigo' with a cavalry rive, times-more numerous and better able to maticeuvre than mine : but Almeida is a. country. full of racks. When the place is besieged,. and when the French are fatigued with the siege, I will relieve The ga•rison was,sliut up in the fortress. -Genetal Craufurd, by the most fooliish tuanceuvries, caused the regiments 'of lii division to be out-up. The trenches were opened, the English from rt eir . catnps, beheld the fire. The' Porttiguese required Lord Willington to keep his pi ornise, and to relieve their countrymen. I can do nothing," replied , . he "my 'orders are -to the contrary." A few days alter Almeida 'was.taken It is related that . a, Portuguese General said on • tliaroccasion to Lord Wellington—` If you could •notdefend us, why excite.us to resistance, and to - covel.our unfortunate country with blood .and It you are in force,, give battle ; it you are too weak, retie, and leave us to [mike arrangements with, the Conquer,r; . 13y way _or answer, .Lord Weiltogoqi•sotinded-a.retreat ; wil.h a barbarity ut.- - know in ,antoi,g civilized nations, he ordered tt• e milis, the firms, the houses, to be destroyed, the 6;flds, to, be _burnt up, and that a vast desart should separate the Erglish from the Frenchtortny. This condad is .airocions, and without example in InOcian annals. The Turks . and. Tartars alone aCt thus. _ , . - •, • , it ti,e European Powers..had idopted these principle Q, every thing- would-be devastated on the ' the Provinces of Prussia, of Austria, would be desart ,, ; every thing there would have • been . giKen up.:tort3rces and thvastation. 'low is a General to bees, used, who, in a friendly country,' wi:ich he .dccLtres IMwelt P 1 utettur, and . which to him ,should be as sacred as his own, not being able to preserve, burns, ravages, and destroys it ? . It :is thus that., in India the. Etiglish have caused "tnyriads of lindoos to perish, have despoiled by tio.s.whery the Ind:anrtinces, have destroyed them by poison, & c. Belton what constitutes the differ . e l ,ce between France and England.,---lo the no vinces where the French .are masters, the for.unes, the property •riflnd,viduals, the stores . .of the mei- Chant,rerntnn_w;4!) tiwir proprietors. They on:y make war on the Sovereign. Tl)e shops, the lairs, the markets ale opt-.,n as in protouud.peace. If England had the same influence as prance on the Comineia,. she would confiscate the merchandize and property . of indi% idua:s ; she would go back to the earliest tittles of b rbarism ; would ,make the. population blaves; would (hag after her fainilies, and would ,chain them together in her hulks. " Wcen France shall* mistress of the sea, her laws will parfake of the generosity of her charac "ter. The liberality of her princii.les on the sea will be the sante a 2'on. land. 'l2richrs will not be made pr;soncrs ; it unarmed, -every ship will be protested by its flag. Vt'e conclu , !e, then, .that in their 'first . Eipe dition the 'English Might havi2 been useful to the Spaniards ; but were not, front their incapacity and egotism that ih the second Expedition. they be haved as it they did not know with, whom they had to do, and abanduned their allies without pity, when .they saw the serious struggle in which they were eon aged; that in the third, they pursued the same errors, only.doing what they could to promote- the belief of, libelsand calumnies, fini3on upon --Li s le Peninsula; and,farinitt the flames of discord and civil War ; inishort, -1 ,10 they have., no respect fur the law nations; that with thetii nothin g is sa cred ; and that if they were as powerful as:they are weak by land, if iiiey had a shadow of the power of France, the Continent would . wear the chains whicie they hate imposed upon the unhappy Hitt cloys. The'. laW of nations and the liberality of the' Continental 'code are due to France ; the h:trnarim of the inariiiine - .:ode is owing-to the ineuence of England on the.seas."---Monitiqtr.. A hISTERDA . M, SEPT. Decree of his Ma jesty the Eniperor, dated St. Cloud, Aug. 18„ chn tains the following article : " The Cities of Amiterdam'and Rotterdam shall be placed in the of our good Citie." - The Duke OfPlacemia, Lieutenant-General of the Emperor in Holland, has issued an order, by which thOse. who are indebted in the duties of 40 or 50 per cent, on Colonial produce, are required to pay LONDO N. riiILIJA I :is, la It is with sentimehts of the deepeSt regret that we communicate to-Our readers an 'event of a most• distres,ing nature, the intelligence of which has just reached us—we mean the d',..ath of Mr. ABLtA HAM GOLDSMII.4: It is generally understood 'that that Gentleman' was a holder of Omnium,to an im niense-amount, and the depression of the Funds is • said :to have had such an effect upOn his spirits, that, be formed the dreadful resolution of putting a period to his existence. Yesterday be discharged all his servants, and at eight o'clock this morning, be shOt himself in a water-closet at Merton. It was at first reported that it was another branch of the family th tt had thus unfortunately perished , but-we have received the above account from - a quar ter that leaves us no room to doubt of its accuracy. Mr. GOLDSMID'S death will be most sincerely re gretted, both upon public and private grounds ; as a commerciA man, be was fair and honourable in his dealingd, and in .privite life he was a most friendly and benevolent mzn. In consequence of the death of this Gentleman, the Stocks ibis morn ing, a 'experienced further depression ; and when Paler was put to press, ()annum was at lot dis count. Wc have emracted from the Moniteur of the 14tk, an article, entitled, " Comments on the Con duc of the English in Spain, and Portugal." We think we may, without hesitation, pronounce the article to be the produdion of BUONAPARTE himself, fill' it bears all .the marks of his pen ; the style is coarse and vuhgar,thestatements are in most instances totally at variance with truth; and there appears to be throUghout a laboured endeavour to insult and out rage the feelings Of the unfortunate people who are' groaning' under the unrelenting oppression of the Ty 'rant. It would be tedious as well as,trieless to point out all the falselieods and misrepresentations in this c.ll - production, because they will naturally strike our Readers • upon the. most cursory perusal 'of it. There are, however, some passages upon which-we to make a few comments. It begins with s::.ting, that when General Mootte• was in Spain, in •November 1 ; 808, with 25,000 men, he did no thing, alt hough the Spaniards had 300,000 men un der arms, and all het; troops of the line. BuoNA. rAaTE knows that at that, period Spain had not all her troops of the line ; he ,knows that, by the mat artful .pretexts, and under the warrnest professions of friendship, he ltad prevailed upon his infatuated, but submissive ally, the KING Of SPAIN, to send all the flower of his army, rather In the charaaer of prisoners than of soldiers, into the North . of Europe. But when BUONAPARTE says that Spain , had at that time 300,000 men under arms, what will the people of France think of his former asser tions; that the ,great mass of the people of Spam looked up to him as their protedor, and 1114 he was only opposed by a despicable banditti under the in fluence of English gold ? • This despicable banditti, now it appears, consisted of 300,000, men in arms ; indeed it would have been wiser in BUONAPARTE to have confessed at first that the,whole population of Spain was hostile to him ; it would have accounted to the people of France for the irntnense torrents of their, blood which has been shed, and it would have. saved him frOto the disgrace of carrying on an un successful war for so long a period, against what he has described' as a " cowardly and Contemptible ,banditti:" Af:er a ,number of observations upon General MooirE, -equilly illiberal and unfounded, the article adverts to the evacuation of Spain by the British army, and says,. that the fate of Spain was then dedited for ever. , Flow ,happens it then that at the distance, of a year and three' quarters from that time, the war in Spain is carried on, with as much vigour as ever ? Flow haiyeas it that there are at this moment con,ide!abie Spanisit armies in several of the Provinces, and that the whole pap lation of the Kingdom, i. , xcept in the spots immedi ately 'covered by French troops, are in arms against BUONAPAIITE ? The article then proceeds.to comment upon what • it terms the 'SecondPeriod of '.the War in Spain,.' 4,4• which it fixes at the . eurnmenceinent of ,the fifth coalition on the Continent. 'Here again the writer of the art tele displays a most remarkable conternvt . for truth ; he saYs, that - SOULT had at that time '16,000 men in Portugal, and Lord WELLINGTON 24,000, and that Portugal was evacuated without a contest or a bati , le. Has BUONAPARTE then for gotten,. or did SOULTneverinform hint,' that he at tempted in vain to defend the passage of the Douro,, that the British army passed that riVer, and drove him out of Portugal, with the loss of all his. am munition and artillery, and one-third Of. his army ? BUONAPARTE fixes the period of the Peace of Vienna • as the commencement of the war in Spain, and he says, that it would have been wise in the English Government . to have withdrawn its troops at that time from the Peninsula. No doubt it would have been very convenient for him that they should have been withdrawn, but subsequent events have cer tainly not shewn the wisdom of such a measure. We do nut think it necessary to notice the : vulgar abuse heaped upon the . Marquis \VEELLESLRY and •Lord WELLINGTON ; we have no doubt that both these Noblemen will always continue to deserve the hatred of the-Tyrant. BUONAPARTE has very frequently, in his Bulletins and Public "Doeu- Ments favoured us with a few dramatic ,Ruches of his own invention. •Immediately after the battle of Austerlitz, he gave an official acccount of a con versation bet ween the Emperor ALEXANDER and General SAVAIIi', although it is known that the Rus 7 man Emperor would not even a admit SAVAVY into hispresence. In this article he has indulged his fancy something in the same way with regard to Lord WELLINGTON, but in too cluaisy . a manner to impose even upon the most credulous of his own 'subjects, We shall only trespass upon our Readers by noticing one more passage in this farrago.: it says " If England had the influence upon the Conti " vent that. France has, she .would confiscate the mer " chandize and property of individuals—she would return to the first. age of barbarism, make the po " pulation slaves, andchlin them in prison -ships ! "When France shall be mistress of the sea, the " generosity of her charaaer will be felt. The lite " ratio' of her maritime" principtei - d'ill to the same "as those upon land : the merchants shall not be " nitride prisoners, if they are not armed ; every ship " shall be protected by..its flag." That BUO,IIAPARTE should have the effrontery to accuse t be English of confiscation, after what we have seen on the Continent, is almost more than human patience can bear; but when we bear Min promise that the literality.uf his maritime principles shall be the same as those upon land, we •can only conclude that BUONAPARTE S:it down to . write the, article in question with the deltberate intention of adding (he most wanton insult to the unrelenting tyranny which he exercises over a i;reat portion of the people of the Continent. Major-General the Hon. STEPHEN MAHON, for the County of Roscommon, is about to proceed 9n active service with a brigade of heavy cavalry, which is to consist of those two highly disciplined and distinguished- corps, the Sty and 7th D►agoon Guards. the same into the hands of the different •Cmhiers or, , the Bank, who are to -calculate the sums due; and, deposit them in the Bank, under their own security.' • For this, the:Cashiers and the Bank are to receive 8 - per cent. • COPEpHAGEN, SEPT. B.—A convoy, under an escort of three shipS of the line,. one frigate, one brig', - and a•Cuiter, which was passing through the Belt, in a very dtsper4ed state, ha, been briskly at-, 13c:ved sy - our gun-boats; four vessels were taken, the• cargoes of three of which„ consiiting of corn, tall6i,c, pot-ash, have . bern brought to,c.;otsor. H Amlsql p H , s ErT 18.—Within these taw days ho§' been renewed the often.repeateAl report, that the . Senatoi Lticien Buonaparte has' sailed for America • with his iawily. GOTTENBURGH MAIL. GOTTENBURGH, SEPT: 21.47—A Courier arrived here .yesterday ftotn Orebro, with an order forthe, release of the English officer and boat's . crew, taken at Marstrand on the. 14:th. The requisition for. the delivery of the privateer will not be complied with. ..kAtton,. SEPT. 3.-4esterday a convoy passed by Langeland, coisisting of 3 sail of the line, t frigate, I brig, - leutter, and about 200 tnerchantry.en. Qur 'flotilla attacked - the convoy, and kept up a brisk tire the: whole afternoon, but twit only four bt the said-convey. - Three of them -have been brought' here,Chisily laden •With. wheat, tallow, pot-ash; and .. .. . , . . . . .. COPENHAGEN,. SEPT. 17.—0 n the 28th .of.last ;month a very smart cannonade took , place between a battery ;.ti Langeland and some of the enemy's shipS of war; namely, two sail of the line and one gun-brig,-which stood in shore to cape ore t wo yachts, ,1411 ch were lying there. The tiring continued about three-quarters of an hour, when the enemy's slips 'retreated. One of the sail of the line reerived seve ral shots in her hull, and the gun-brig one between wind and water.: • . FRANKFORT UPON MAIN, SEPT. I.—Her 111,jest% the late Queen of Sweden passed the day before. Yesterday through this place, ori her way to Weimar. By ibe . arrangements made for I.lis journey, it would seem it was not her Majesty's 'mention to return to the south of Germany. In Weintdr ,the Queen intends to wait for lierlioyal Consort,, wild is still in Pretsct', a small place hetWeen Leipstc and Dres den, where he finally stops unlit the return ot`a cou rier whom lie has sent to Sweden. MAILS. , - Aiti xo—t Gottenburgh, i Oublin. Due—i t Lisbon. 2 Wiitertord. PRICE OF. STOCKS THTS b 4 Y A r TVO.LV IL O'CLOCK. Consols -65 64 R 63 011111ililn - - - • 710 1' it. E 6 V IN. SOLEM QUIS DICIRR TALSUM AUDF AT ? NAVAL NEWS. PL TiMotpru, SY.PT. 26.--kis Majesty's brig fl iztg ii i ly, of 14 guns, lopes conVoy ir.struottoat W .*"sg ha bound to Lisbon, and will sail from !lance 00 1". 3011) inst. Arrived the galliot Risk, ttusset. , .., from St ,i j besj . with a cargo of salt, homnd to London the Porto gueze ship Tiger, from-the Brazils, hound to Lon, don, both put in here by contrary winds ; t he privateer, from Alderney ; the Eleanor and Gra L ' el Ettowx Jain Stlod, WILKINS ; Belford, CHOLS ; Speculator, BOWDIIN ; and JuWee, from Wales; and his Majesty's ship Princess 61/4" lotto , from Cork • sr: l , Sliled the American schooner Dulina, A TM for Falmodtb. His Majes:fs shp Dexterous takes convoy "3 Carr'' and the intelligent to the Downs. PORTSMOUTH, SP Pr. 9,7.---Sailed this day hjsiVra; jelly's ship Owen Glendower; Cormorant and wick store-ships, with a convoy of merchantmen, t° t Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malta, and the Mediterrautio n ' Came into Harbour this day the Mie, Vtn' cl ' : " from .Ltmaica, with damage; and the liferca'°' JACKSON, from Gibraltar, with 'French prisbn rs °I board. • Arrived the James, DUTCH:I4N Atlas, Marina, -, from Inmaica s ; Duke of . 8 ' .°414 JOHNSTON, from C.dristown ; Four Friends, o ' s ' ; Swallow, SARLA .D; Friends, HICKS, frorn I :' ° 7 don; lido, TAYLOR, from Ncwclstle ; F" ve. dfnce, RoBINSON, from Sunderland; Bee, .1" 0 " 84 ' frOm Tenby '; Lady Preseot, -, from ()ov a 3 Becithe °lend, Gueinsey ; and the Vi e, BARROW, from Bristol. Sailed-the Fanny, PROUTING, for Gibraltar;'' ' a the Cynthia, for Lisbon ; Hope, PALUZR ; and J° :; --, for Sunderland; and Bruce, By ithiN , London. LEITH, SEPT. 25.—The Lady's, Adreata re ' Newcastle, arrived on Suriday from - St. John's four vessels of the Gottenblirgh and the Baltic ° I. e to voy also two prizeS to the Tartar frigate, 01 ' - 630 the . Eger/a, and one to the Leveret, arrived same day. The Albion cut ter sailed this morning on a also the Gallant gun-brig with thw convoy fa' G° .tenbtirgli and thb Bailie. •rai3 FALMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Arriveci the Amerl ship /Inn 411 aria fratn Nel. , York, is The Eliza Packet will sail 10.i - rn - row if the wind is favourable. ' DIAL, iii; Maiesty's I and Hero for Portsmouth ; and the Sarah Chrisll4''' for the River. Arrived his Majesty's ship Cordelia from a c rt "' and the HiggOison, -- from Buenos AYle s ' are gone for the River. • n Conic, OrPT. 2 1 .--Yesterday his INl.3jesty'a c -` st 44 Emerald, Capt. MAITLAND, and Princess .1":44 Capt. TOBIN, arrived at Cove from a crnize• 3 The 'Helena sloop, Capt. Worm', sailed c`ci croi ze. This day his Majesty's ship Mercury, Car t• re ' cocr:, arrived from Por(smouth. DiSTRIBUTIO'N OF PRIZE-MONEY' To the Astrea, for the capture of the French privateer oa Preividence (the Royalist sloop and gun-brigs ‘Vrang le . s el - Tickle: in sight), on the 26th inst. at No. 7u, Great K° 3o lo street, Bloomsbury, 'and fur three months after, at the 6 place. oei e ' the Niger, for the capture of the Danish shit'"lvi 9 anti American sloop Rover, and of the American sIIJP 29th Washington, captured by the Niger and Sobrida, on t he inst. at No. rl, Cecil-street, Strand, and.afterwards at same l.ice. o the gun-brig Dapper, for the recapture of the A tr erica" brig Ann, salva,.;e therefrom on the 27th, on board til e iiot gun-brig, if iii.port, and .n Alondays and Thursdays a il ' 17 0 three months, at No. 13, Clement's inn. 3 r`i To the Horatio, tier the capture of. La Necessity., 0 " i rt;' at, Put tsmouth, on the 25th inst. and on Tuesdays and .I'l days alter tug three months, at No. 4, Austin Friars,. reel To_the sloop. Garnett, for the Capture of the Excellen t Kat i .on board the said sloop, at Po,tsinouth, on the 28th 10 6 o" c s t for four months after, at No. :3, Great George-street , tninster., re " t To the hired'aftecletitreißritish 'eair, for the car te ,., 3 1 the Danish brig Anna Eliz'abeth, on board the said cuts e Yarmouth, on the 29Ci inst. and afterwards at No. tnent's- The William Pitt, East India:llan, whose ar ri too , we yesterday mentioned, _anchored cktf Lyrrli n g,,; o p. on Wednesday. She parted with his - Majesty's s i - o ff; of war Little Belt in chase of a French privrtte!; Plymouth, which ii is supposed has ca ptureu dos By this conveyance Lieut.-Col. of the 1 ‘ 417 Anny, has arrived with dispatches for GPveril nlc io . which are said to be important. Lord MINT ° , - enjoyed good health aod spirits, and was.ab° l6 , o f proceed to Bengal, the late unhappy disturban ce . the Coast Army having totally snlasided: • 5 , PAssaNcErts rER WILLIAM 91 f T.— Captain an d „ :i re r yt Hart, Lieutenant-Colonel Leith. Mes s rs. Wahab, ;',"" c geo Stuart, Kenny, Andrews, Norman, Cr o ker, Barber, O'Cot , and Hunter, Lieutenant Grove, Captain Kobkerk• 0 0, nets Simpson and StockWel4v ; T:usign . r. 0. Smith, nants Eiott and . Robinson, Royal ; Mr. Le 4 c 1 ,,, 1 0 , Mr. Evans, Royal Navy ; Lieutenant Da vis,. , :;„:tv' s died at sea, 18th September ; Lieut.' Nor Man, 'of ra. 3 ,r':" 56th Regiment"— : . • ' • Letters received yesterday from Am4teP/aol - :: t .ii Rotterdam to the ; 25th instant, state, that die ./ n :f,e will be placed by Buonaparte ° l—. l , l t Papal Territories, subjeta to the tJWs of EfAIIM .I2 not ideltitied with the Empire. i ~`_